- Accepted Paper
Spin dynamics from the Niu-Kleinman adiabatic approach and slave-boson mean-field theory
Phys. Rev. B - Accepted 16 September, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/3hcv-nckk
Phys. Rev. B - Accepted 16 September, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/3hcv-nckk
Spin-wave excitations provide a central probe of magnetic order and electronic correlations in strongly correlated materials. In this work, we develop an adiabatic theory of spin dynamics by combining the Niu–Kleinman formalism with Kotliar–Ruckenstein slave-boson theory (NK+KRSB). For each frozen spin configuration, the constrained slave-boson saddle point is solved self-consistently, allowing the Berry-curvature matrix and energy Hessian entering the linearized adiabatic equations of motion to be extracted directly. Applied to the half-filled single-orbital Hubbard model, the resulting spin-wave dispersion shows substantially improved agreement with determinant quantum Monte Carlo benchmarks compared with the random phase approximation and closely approaches results from the time-dependent Gutzwiller approximation. We further extend the method to a two-orbital model of LaNiO, demonstrating its applicability to realistic multi-orbital correlated systems. Because the approach only requires saddle-point solutions near the magnetic ground state, it remains computationally efficient while incorporating strong-correlation effects beyond conventional weak-coupling descriptions, providing a practical framework for studying low-energy spin excitations in correlated quantum materials.
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